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This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning environments (OLEs). Women choose to participate actively in outdoors careers, many believing the profession is a level playing field and that it offers alternatives to traditio... More

This book reflects the considerable appeal of the Anthropocene and the way it stimulates new discussions and ideas for reimagining sustainability and its place in education in these precarious times. The authors explore these new imaginings for sustainability using varying theoretical perspectives ... More

This book argues that the neoliberal globalisation of higher education faces a need for recalibration. In light of increased concerns from universities in cultivating globalisation, this volume brings together a multi-ethnic and multilingual team of researchers who argue that the continued developme... More

By exploring past, current, and future intersections between leisure and health, this book considers research and academic thought to reveal and critique the nuanced ways that leisure impacts health as well as considering how health professions use leisure as a 'tool'. Aided by the diverse chapters,... More

Risk Management in the Outdoors is essential reading for students and practitioners involved in outdoor education, sport, recreation and tourism. Written by an expert author team, it explores the value of the outdoors in a society that is increasingly risk- adverse, but at the same time pushes the c... More

Fue la peor de las tragedias en el peor de los lugares posibles. El incendio de la torre cinco de la cárcel de San Miguel, ocurrido en la madrugada del 8 de diciembre de 2010, destapó una serie de negligencias del sistema carcelario nacional que revelan una triste certeza: caer preso en Chile no so... More

En 2011, en plena efervescencia estudiantil, el crimen de un joven llamado Manuel Gutiérrez enlutó al movimiento y remeció al gobierno de Sebastián Piñera. En esta exhaustiva investigación periodística Tania Tamayo reconstruye el conflicto social que provoco la muerte de Manuel y que cobra, por esto... More

Un libro de investigación periodística imprescindible y contingente con miras a la Conferencia de la ONU sobre el Cambio Climático Chile se seca a velocidad vertiginosa. Pero se trata de una sequía selectiva. En Petorca, región de Valparaíso, miles de personas racionan su consumo diario, mientra... More

Investigación periodística que indaga las razones del accidente sufrido por el Casa 212 que llevaba una tripulación civil a la isla Juan Fernández, entre ellos, al animador Felipe Camiroaga y al director de Levantemos Chile, Felipe Cubillos, tragedia que remeció al país. El viernes 2 de septiem... More